And to the angel of Smyrna write, These things says the First and the Last, who was dead and came to life: I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
He who has an ear, let Him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.
Jesus answered and said to them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are counted worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him, ( Luke 20:34-3).
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.
Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he had persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ, ( Revelation 12:9-17).
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then, I, John saw the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with men, and they shall be His people, God Himself will be them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.
Then He who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these are true and faithful.
And He said to me, It is done! I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning, and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, (Revelation 21: 1-8).
Jesus said to her, I AM the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?, ( John 11:25-26).
Do we believe this, beloved? There are so many scriptures that prove Jesus Christ arose that new day that we stand on as our hope and anchor…… Do we also believe we have escaped the second death….. into the lake of fire?
We worship the One who has fire in His eyes. We allow His Spirit to dwell within us and work His work in us as we abide in Him- the Word of God changing and sifting all things. He gently shows us the wrong strongholds we have incorrectly placed our faith and trust in that shall fail us and which also pulls us away from Him…… Then we turn anew again to learn and lean on the One who never and will never fails us….. for love never fails. God is love.
In whose eyes we are transformed into His image from glory to glory… as scripture states in 2 Corinthians 3:16-18. Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
When we go to work, we may do the things that are required because we have to. There may be no affection or great amount of glee in our duty but as there may be for our fellow workers…….But our walk with our King is all about love, love and more love.
He has captured us by His love and with His love. We can only turn to Him because He has first called us by His love…… Our walk with Him is stemmed from the knowledge of His love for us. His love for us will keep us through all that we must walk and sometimes tread on this earth till we arise in His likeness as stated in the Psalms.
So love is our motivator to come and sit at His feet and sit with Him in His throne…. to be a part of Him now…… We desire to know Him because He is beyond amazing….. This is not ritual or a demand but a drawing close to the One who has broken and touched our hearts so deeply that He deserves our all and all our attention- even when we are busy with stuff, even His stuff.
He is not like we are when we send our kids off to school…. We bless, pray and hope they will be okay and do all they are called to do…… Our God is with us when we go off to school, work, jobs, hobbies. Thank God He does go with our kids too!..… He is there and wants us to take Him with us in all we do and say.
He is there, but He wants to be invited and acknowledged He is with us. He wants us to realize we are abiding in Him as we go and as we sleep, eat, all we do……. Just say Hi- Lord, I love You….. or thank You for this or that….. Thanks for being with the kids…. Etc. He is our Divine Romancer….. He likes to be honored in love as well as obedience….. We are far more likely to obey His words by love which is so powerful, then duty.
Yes, through the raising of kids, through the marriage and old age…….His drawing us to draw to Him. So we may be grounded and rooted in His love and that we cannot get enough of Him….. It is like eating a peanut…….or a potato chip, we cannot have just one! One special moment with the King is worth a thousand moments on this earth which will pass away…… His moments are eternal value and worth which will pass on to others by us that will also be of eternal value…..
This abiding is held so valuable to our King for He requested this as His prayer to the Father , right before entering in His suffering night and day,in John 17. And who are we to be too busy to sit with the King? He doesn’t want our duty or our guilt to come to Him….. He wants us to draw near to Him because we want to……. because we love Him and we need Him. He is worth it all…. and He is worth our all…. but because we love Him. Oh yes, we respect and have a healthy fear of the Lord….. but we yearn to please Him because we love Him.
Our God wants to be our God in every way and in every thing we say and do and want to be.
Our Great Creator is beyond any wisdom of man, our Ancient of Days knows how to mix the persecution and trials and blessings to our eternal value…. He has a great goal beyond us just skipping out on hell…..He has great plans for each one of His children…. We must give Him our time to till our heart for His will and purpose which is beyond what we can fathom or realize….. He is great and so are His plans for us…..Let us turn to Him and away from the distractions which may be really important today but in the essence of eternity- ahhh- not so much.
So also is the resurrection from the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There us a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life giving spirit.
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those what are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those that are heavenly.
As we have borne the image of the man of dust; we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. Now I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruptible, and this mortality must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put corruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?, ( 1 Corinthians 15:42-55).
Also the scripture from Galatians 6:7-8 comes to fruition: Do not be deceived for God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit will reap everlasting life.
We want the change from corruption to incorruption to be met with celebration as the image of the Lord is brilliant within shining out as well as our body changed to immortality too.
We are grateful that what He started He will complete!!! Yeah! He started in us as the Incorruptible Seed in our spirit man….. His Spirit is here within each of us, cleaning the soul of man preparing us to glory and glory into the image of the Son of God….. and He will complete the our mortal bodies into the immortality beings as the sons of God.
This, beloved, is the freedom of fear and torment of the second death….The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, ( 1 Corinthians 15:57).
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God, ( Philippians 1:3-6).
Remember, we are always drawn to people who want to be around us and enjoy us…… As so does our Lord, for we are made into our God’s image….. If people look at us coming to them with a frown and down, we will probably not return. But thank God for our King, He keeps knocking on the door of our busy lives hoping we will open….. Beloved, He wants to sit and sup with us…… Thus great King of glory wants you and me and to be with us for all eternity. Eternity is today and forever in Him.
Let us turn today and put all distractions away, including, we are not important to Him. That is a lie from Satan…… You and I are the most precious prize to our King of glory…… We may not see what He sees, but we must believe……. The purpose of His company is so we may learn to see as He sees and lose our sightlessness and gain His!!
Some of our brothers and sisters hold our King so precious that they lost their natural life because they have no choice but choosing Him…… but beloved, they have gained Christ. They hold so much value in Him that they have been martyred for Him and His name……. They now celebrate death has lost its sting. I ask the Lord daily You be my vision so come what may, I will remain Yours through the fire and the lions and the water and the gators and snakes….. May I hold your ground- especially through the snakes and gators! May I stand singing I am Yours knowing Your Light will be brightest through the darkness night.
Body of Christ in the western hemisphere, will we stand as our brothers and sisters have in other countries for their faith no matter what the cost? May we learn to strengthen ourselves in the Spirit of God this day….. for we do not know what may come our way! If our path is smooth to walk then we have the strength to carry the burden of our family in other nations in prayer to our God….. Pray we must for may it not be this day for us, but who knows what the morrow will bring forth. This nation has blood crying out from the innocent…… Our God is merciful and just……Be in prayer for we must be in His court to the bring His justice forth.
Selah!
My Children,
Draw nigh to Me as then I will draw nigh to you. I AM the best meal you will ever have. Do not be concerned when trouble arises for My name sake, all My friends are called trouble makers…. Will you go and awaken the dead and rise the standard of Me in the world? I AM the Hammer that breaks the chains of death and complacency. These are My vessels that point My way is the only highway to walk for the other way is wide and many walk it and do not return to life…..
Let this be the walk of My beloved…. Walk the narrow and be the Light for Me unto this lost world.
Ahh, those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Those who are wise in their own eyes and good in their own sight…. Those of men mighty at drinking wine and mixing intoxicating drink….. Those of men who justify a bribe and take away justice from a man! Ahhh, those men call out My little ones as…troublers! You awake me out of my slumber….
My vessels are the troublers of the principalities and powers disrupting their appointed place. They have been sent by Me…..
As My friend, Elijah, was called troubler of Israel so My vessels this day are known as Mine as My Light bearers on the lost. So shall they be as they trouble and stir up and destroy the hornet’s nest which is settled down as they hold many captive in their sleep. If they do not arise their sleep will be the sleep of death eternal…..
So rejoice and be glad. Spin around for I AM has called you forth to shine the Son…… There is no place I AM does not shine- Prepare the way of Your Lord.
When the slander and vile comes, do you listen and take in to the heart or do you know the sign of the times has come that My son, Paul, spoke about? Do your ears listen and question or do you stand and say I know the Light is in them for I have seen the King in their eyes…. Choose this day….. the accuser of the brethren or the one who links arms with their brother and sister through it all…… For in My house, I AM will know who you are…….
Shall you stand your ground in Me and put off the false words towards the brethren? Did you forget they spoke the same against Me? Did you forget the warning I AM has given thee? If they have falsely accused I AM and you are Mine, shall they not do the same if you are the carrier of My Spirit….. Woe to those who have been spoken well by all, they have not been a threat to My enemies and they shall fall.
Woe to those who believe the worst and do not help the least. Woe to those who believe a lie and never believe in Me. If I AM has been spoken against and lied against, what about those who are mine? Is not what I AM speaks over you and has called you to shall be? Is not I AM greater and My Word over thee greater then evil? Who shall My children believe them or Me?
Do you forget that those who persecute and say all matter of lies over Mine are doing the slander to I AM? Shall they come to contend with Me? Oh yes, they shall meet Me. See the opportunity you have given ME? Evil forgets that all he does I AM turns for good……
Choose the highway and believe the best for in this I AM. Is this not the flood flowing out of the dragon’s mouth causing many to fall into the waters of deceit? If they call on the name of I AM and say I AM Lord- they cannot be against I AM …… Why are My children believing lies about their own family? This should not be unless the accuser of the brethren is apart of you…..My Spirit should be dwelling within you.
Be Mine for all of time and through out the eternal…. Know I AM and you will know My own. Be wise for serpent loves to lie…. Be humble for the serpent loves to impress. Be still and know I AM and I AM yours. Know I AM and I AM will reveal the truth from the lie! I AM the giver of dreams that will come to pass one day….. I AM is the Discerner of this day, why hold onto your own reasoning- how far has it proved you unto this day?
The Spirit has come to rest in My own….. When the fire is burning there is no room for the cold to get in for I AM there. Only those who do not have the Fire of God within allow the cold through their open door….. But the Seal of My Spirit closes the door. We then walk together and learn of I AM……..The Seal has cemented this one is Mine and this creation is new and will be completed at the end of time…..Make sure this is said of you. Is My hand on your heart? Is My voice what you dream ? Is My purpose what makes you awake?
I AM has given you My all…… I AM will be all and in all.
SELAH!! SELAH!!
